LOST: Time I will never get back

[Suu]

You are all totally wrong. Hurley ate everyone. This is why he stayed fat even when stranded on the damn island. Duh!


-Suu
Thought it was retarded from the first episode.

[AFK]

oh is it over?

I stopped watching after the first season when I realized I was only hanging on in hopes that people would people die.

How did you put up with those irritating characters for six years?




I keep screwing things up for no reason
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Hey there I'm the protagonist, have any protagonistic things for me to do?
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Hi guys, thank you for watching lost. The real twist at the end of the series is that the whole thing was written by one of Enki's Markov chain bots.
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Actually, there were a lot of interesting characters, IMO, outside of Jack and Kate.  Benamin Linus for one.  Daniel Faraday was another interesting character.  Desmond Hume, though they put that poor bastard through the wringer any chance they got.  I also liked Mr. Eko and thought they killed him off too soon.  I still think it was a pretty good show, despite the somewhat disappointing resolution.  And I also have to give it some kudos for sucking a conventional, network audience into a show that had a hefty amount of sci-fi and philosophy.  In a sea of crime dramas, legal dramas, and hospital dramas, it made its mark. 

[Cramulus]

true, I gotta confess I had a soft spot for Locke, Hurley, and Sawyer, who only seemed to exist to make others miserable. I only watched the first season though, so I don't know what happened with them after that.

I do like Weirdness on mainstream TV, I'll give it that.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Well.  Kinda. 

Spoiler warning and such:

Basically, Jack shows up at this funeral home where the other Losties have been gathering, and he thinks its the funeral for his Dad as the airline finally located and shipped his father's coffin.  But he is told to enter in the back where he sees the coffin.  He touches the coffin and has flashes of the Island universe.  Opens the coffin, and its empty, and then there is pops, standing, seemingly alive.  That's Jack's dad pretty much tells Jack that they are both dead and so isn't everyone else in the funeral home.  And he also remarks that they aren't in any "now".  It seems clear that at a minimum he was saying that the parallel universe off the island was not real and was simply the souls of the Losties wandering around in some kind of purgatory.  What isn't clear, to me anyway, is if the whole damned thing was purgatory.  That they all pretty much died when the plane crashed in the first episode and were caught in this tropical purgatory. 

If that is the case, it's a pretty cheap way to end it.  Basically saying the whole 6 seasons were never real, but basically one big long trudge towards the light at the end of the tunnel.  But I'm not sure and it was vague in that typical Lost-fashion. 

Oh, and the real kicker was when Jack's father opens the doors to the church and this big white light shines through.  Big cheese factor right there. 

I got the sense that they were trying to merge the two universes- that most of them had died in the first one, but were still alive in the side ways one. Jack saying that he had died had more to do with the closing scene- Sideways Jack realizes that his original self was killed by the smoke monster in Locke form. I think that part of what makes me think that the sideways Losties were trying to restore something is the conversation between sideways Hurley and sideways Ben were talking outside the funeral home, and Ben tells Hurley that he was a great leader. Since is only shown being the leader for a few scenes, he doesn't have anyway to show how he was great. I think that the plane wreckage was not Lapidus'

I did get a kick out of Rose and Bernard in this last season, basically telling the other characters to leave them alone because they don't want to be involved in their drama and crazy adventures. A little bit of self deprecating humor.

[Dimocritus]

At least the score was halfway decent... Repetitive, but it worked.

I'm just ticked because, from a writers standpoint, they did a good job of weaving an intricate tale and connecting dots, and I just had high hopes for an ending that followed the same standards. Oh well. Fuck network television...

[Nephew Twiddleton]

At least the score was halfway decent... Repetitive, but it worked.

I'm just ticked because, from a writers standpoint, they did a good job of weaving an intricate tale and connecting dots, and I just had high hopes for an ending that followed the same standards. Oh well. Fuck network television...

Yeah I wanted more out of it too. Especially since it was 2 and a half hours long.

[AFK]

Too many goddamn commercials!   

Couldn't they have got Target to shell out some extra dough and just run their commercials instead of having the show so damned chopped up?  2 1/2 hours sounds nice until you realize that probably a good 30 minutes of it is ads.  The hard core Lost fans watching this thing don't give a fuck about where they can get surf and turf or the latest death trap on wheels from Toyota.  Just give us the fucking show!

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Too many goddamn commercials!   

Couldn't they have got Target to shell out some extra dough and just run their commercials instead of having the show so damned chopped up?  2 1/2 hours sounds nice until you realize that probably a good 30 minutes of it is ads.  The hard core Lost fans watching this thing don't give a fuck about where they can get surf and turf or the latest death trap on wheels from Toyota.  Just give us the fucking show!

True, though I did like the Target one for computer keyboards.

[LaughingOtter]

Either that or they used what was swept up off the floor of the set of The Prisoner. Goddess, what a rollercoaster ride into a mountain of shit THAT was!

[Iason Ouabache]

Hi guys, thank you for watching lost. The real twist at the end of the series is that the whole thing was written by one of Enki's Markov chain bots.
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Makes about as much sense as anything else.

[Freeky]

I'm just gonna post in this thread to watch everyone complain about the shitty ending of a tv show. 

[Telarus]

I'm glad it's over and had a 'real ending' (seriously, most cable tv shows just don't end, don't have an end in mind, and don't think about it until they're sure that there won't be another season).

I was disappointed by how vague the ending was. I think that was the most disappointing part, I wanted there to be more of a 'reveal'.

This is what I wanted to see happen (and was my hypothesis since last week):

Jack 'fixes' Locke in surgery, but it's revealed that if Jack wants to save all his friends in the side-ways universe then he and Locke have to stay on the island forever (as the light/dark duality). But when they finally merge the universes it turns out that Faraday has figured out a way for Locke to reassert his personality over the smoke monster's (something something something about all the dead people on the island who didn't make it to the sideways universe).

[AFK]

When the creators first announced the deal to end the show in 6 seasons, and that they knew what the final scene was going to be, the scene I imagined was different than what happened.  I figured it would be some kind of reprisal of a scene we've already, um, seen.  But instead of the close up of Jack's eye, I was imagining the scene between Jacob and MIB as played out by Jack and Locke.  With Locke uttering the phrase, "you know how much I want to kill you" but they are bound by the same rules that Jacob and MIB were bound by.  And then, on the horizon, you see a boat coming in.  A sort of "here we go again" ending.  I like my ending better than what actually happened. 

[Dimocritus]

True, though I did like the Target one for computer keyboards.

Yes, keyboards for $23.00.

Also, they sat at table 23. I Lo5'd a few things, but I can't remember them all.

[AFK]

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